_Humbug_--_Ambages_ (Vol. viii., p. 64.).--May I be permitted to inform
your correspondent that Mr. May was certainly correct when using the word
"ambages" as an English word in his translation of Lucan.
In Howell's _Dictionary_, published in London in May 1660, I find it thus
recorded
"Ambages, or circumstances."
"Full of ambages."